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Search Engine Watch August 28, 2008 Sage Lewis |
Get Links Now: Make a Difference, Make Connections Want to solve the link building riddle? Stop thinking about money and start thinking about something bigger. Getting outside of your own little world can expand your horizons, as well as your link portfolio.  |
Inc. September 1, 2008 |
CEO Survey: Blog Eat Blog Thirty-one percent of CEOs maintain a blog or social network, and for the most part, they love them.  |
Search Engine Watch October 26, 2010 Jeremy Bencken |
How to Value Links? Perhaps the hardest question to answer in search engine optimization is how much to budget for link building. Here's how you can establish a fair ROI for link building.  |
Fast Company Jul/Aug 2013 |
R.I.P. Google Reader We think the phrase "we think" could be used in every announcement to consumers: It allows a company to make a statement that can't be proven false. Google, which on July 1 officially closes down Google Reader, just might be the "we think" master.  |
Search Engine Watch July 16, 2009 Sage Lewis |
Re-Thinking Link Building I've yet to meet anyone who loves to chase down links, and the time involved can become costly. Is passing the task off to interns or outsourcing this important task to India the answer?  |
Search Engine Watch October 22, 2009 Sage Lewis |
All Links Are Not Created Equal As link building evolves and changes over time, we need to look at a variety of factors that determine whether a link is useful.  |
Search Engine Watch November 3, 2009 Eric Enge |
Getting Started with a New SEO Project Beginning search engine optimization efforts during the initial stages of a Web site project can save you time, effort, and money.  |
Search Engine Watch December 2, 2008 Mark Jackson |
Link Building, Circa 2008 SEO isn't as easy as it was in years past. At one time, optimization meant dropping some keywords in your meta keywords tag, using your most important key phrases a dozen or so times on a page, and exchanging links with anyone who had a Web site.  |
Search Engine Watch May 3, 2011 Kristi Hines |
How to Use Blog Commenting to Get Valuable Backlinks and Traffic Blog commenting can help you build relationships and authority in your industry. This will ultimately lead to organic links and new traffic.  |
Search Engine Watch February 27, 2011 Mark Jackson |
The Difference Between Black Hat SEO and Bad SEO The safest way to build up trust/links for your website is to create good, unique, resourceful/helpful content, promote via social channels, and try to win links the "white hat" way.  |
Search Engine Watch March 3, 2009 Carrie Hill |
SMB Link Building Without a Dime Link building doesn't have to be expensive. The first step in finding good links actually started a while ago, when you got to work writing great content that others will want to link to. Next comes scoping out your top-ranking competitors and copying what they're doing right.  |
Search Engine Watch March 25, 2009 Eric Enge |
Choose the Right SEO Project Goals Picking the right goals is key to the success of any SEO effort. A surprising number of companies focus on what they think are the right goals, but end up being dead wrong. Success comes when you can tie your SEO goals to the broader goals of your business.  |
Search Engine Watch October 29, 2010 Rob Chant |
Preparing Your Small Business Site For SEO A starter guide for small business owners who are launching a brand new site and approaching search engine optimization for the first time.  |
Search Engine Watch December 30, 2008 Mark Jackson |
The Paid Links Debate Rages On Should an ethical SEO recommend paid links to their clients?  |
PC Magazine February 8, 2007 Russell Morgan |
Business Blogging Here's how your small business can benefit from blogs.  |
Search Engine Watch March 8, 2011 Kristi Hines |
Google Panda Update: Say Goodbye to Low-Quality Link Building What does the recent news of Google penalties and recent algorithm updates mean for your link building strategies? Advice on how you can determine valuable backlink opportunities.  |
Search Engine Watch July 24, 2008 Justilien Gaspard |
Link Building with Customers The most underutilized source of links for companies: customers. Here's how to encourage your customers to link to your site.  |
Search Engine Watch March 26, 2009 Sage Lewis |
My Thoughts on Promo Outcomes Asking people to give feedback about your product or service is great on many levels. It builds relationships and provides incredibly valuable information.  |
Search Engine Watch October 28, 2008 Mark Jackson |
The Ghosts of SEO Past and Future When banner ads first came out, there was hardly enough inventory to satisfy advertisers' needs. Paid search and search engine optimization changed all that. But SEO, too, has changed radically in the last decade.  |
Search Engine Watch December 9, 2008 Mark Jackson |
Is it Too Late for Holiday Search Traffic? Holiday phrases like "Christmas" show up in Google's universal search results, so there still may be an opportunity to show up. For other competitive keyword phrases, you'd be better off targeting New Year's, or even Valentine's Day.  |
Search Engine Watch January 8, 2009 Justilien Gaspard |
Don't Overlook These Link Building Opportunities With each passing year, link development becomes increasingly difficult. Yet we sometimes tend to overlook good link opportunities that are right under our noses.  |
Search Engine Watch November 13, 2008 Justilien Gaspard |
Use Online Public Relations for Link Marketing Make the most out of these rocky economic times by utilizing your staff during idle time for online public relations. It's a great way to build links and increase sales simultaneously.  |
Search Engine Watch August 12, 2010 Peter van der Graaf |
Optimizing Your Existing Links Contacting your link partners can improve your link profile and rankings. Here are some helpful link building strategies, plus some pitfalls you'll want avoid.  |
Search Engine Watch June 18, 2009 Sage Lewis |
Sage's Dirty Little Secret Lean forward here. I'm about to tell you a dirty little secret: Part of an effective PR response is to keep the controversy going.  |
Search Engine Watch February 1, 2011 Garrett French |
The New School of Link Prospecting Keyword Research (+4 Tools & 2 Tips) Tools, tips, and resources for keyword research to build a deep, comprehensive list of link prospects.  |
Search Engine Watch January 17, 2007 Eric Enge |
An Introduction to SEO Best Practices Best practices for search engine optimization are constantly evolving, and are starting to look more like conventional business plans.  |
Search Engine Watch June 5, 2008 Sage Lewis |
3 Ways to Spy on Your Competitors Master these three gadgets and you'll be one step closing to being the secret agent link sleuth you always wanted to be.  |
Search Engine Watch November 23, 2010 Jennifer Van Iderstyne |
The Redeeming Qualities of Links with a Bad Reputation Backlink rejects, such as nofollows, blog comments, and reciprocal links, have earned their bad reputations by being mostly garbage. But that doesn't make them entirely beyond salvation.  |
Entrepreneur September 2006 Amanda Kooser |
Think Links The road to link popularity.  |
Search Engine Watch June 6, 2008 Frank Watson |
What is Valid Link Bait? Hidden widget links. Social media traffic bait. Morality and marketing living together.  |
Search Engine Watch March 3, 2011 Jeremy Bencken |
21-Day Link Builder Relationship Challenge As link builders, we must give in order to receive. Here are three general categories of relationship-building "gives" that will help you create a worthy relationship foundation and attract an unfair share of links.  |
Search Engine Watch July 3, 2008 Sage Lewis |
Three Tips for Creating a Successful Blog Instead of focusing on where to find links, SEOs and site owners should think about setting up a site so people will want to link to it. People usually put the cart (the links), before the horse (the content). But the horse is the content that drives the cart -- the links.  |
Search Engine Watch April 25, 2011 Ray "Catfish" Comstock |
3 Use Cases for SEO Tools If you want to improve your SEO campaign, especially if you have a large website, it may be worth your time to investigate what modern SEO tools can do to make you more efficient and help you attain better results.  |
Search Engine Watch November 30, 2010 Kristi Hines |
4 Ways to Build Links Without Anchor Text Is there such a thing as too much anchor text? Absolutely. Here are some of the benefits of creating a more natural looking link profile.  |
Search Engine Watch December 10, 2009 Justilien Gaspard |
Rethinking your Link Marketing Strategies Tips for improving your rankings for budgets of all sizes.  |
Search Engine Watch February 22, 2011 Jennifer Van Iderstyne |
Link Lovers From Hell Warning! These are some of the more undesirable link partners you'll come across on the web -- sites you definitely don't want to take home to mom.  |
Search Engine Watch February 9, 2009 Ron Jones |
Link Building 101, Part 2 Last week, we looked at on-site linking best practices. Today, we'll look at off-page factors, with five methods you can start using right now to build links.  |
Search Engine Watch May 20, 2008 Aaron Shear |
Social Media Marketing in an Enterprise Environment Social media sites like MySpace or Facebook, and even long-standing social media tools like blogs remain a mystery to many large organizations. But that's all beginning to change, as more big businesses find ways to incorporate these elements into their overall marketing strategy.  |
ifeminists July 2, 2008 Wendy McElroy |
A Domestic Violence Blog The author tries to make sense of her experiences with this topic.  |
Search Engine Watch October 21, 2010 Justilien Gaspard |
Using Customers for Link Marketing A few insights that will help you get your customers involved in creating links to your site.  |
Search Engine Watch March 31, 2011 Jeremy Bencken |
PR-SEO Mythbusting for Better Link Building This letter is designed to be something an SEO can give their PR firm to help them understand the changes they should make to dramatically increase the number of links their effort yields.  |
Search Engine Watch February 25, 2009 Eric Enge |
Maintaining an SEO Log At its root, SEO is an inexact science. It's a world where we follow best practices and use our best judgment to make decisions on what to do next.  |
Search Engine Watch November 5, 2009 Sage Lewis |
Do Follow Pros and cons of building links through blog comments.  |
Search Engine Watch October 28, 2010 Garrett French |
How to Find Safe, Valuable, and Scalable Link Building Opportunities A guide for finding trustworthy links that drive the right traffic to your site.  |
PC Magazine September 28, 2005 John C. Dvorak |
Dvorak's Blogging Primer Despite the growing popularity of blogs, lots of people still don't get what they're about.  |
Entrepreneur August 2006 Catherine Seda |
Attention, Please! Having trouble attracting readers to your blog? With the right voice, your popularity in cyberspace will soar.  |
Search Engine Watch August 24, 2010 Eric Enge |
Why You Shouldn't Pursue the Long Tail Don't optimize only for the long tail. Instead, build a site that search engines will view as "trusted" to capitalize and grow traffic over time.  |
Search Engine Watch February 7, 2011 Adam Audette |
Mea Culpa: How I Failed At Link Building It's quite easy to put your principles and SEO best practices aside in place of other, less important, motivations. Hopefully this tale will help you avoid losing clients and reinforce why you need to be efficient, smart, and careful in making business decisions.  |
Search Engine Watch August 7, 2008 Justilien Gaspard |
Link Building with Customers, Part 2 Customers are one of your most valuable link building resources, because they're already sold on your product or service. Cultivating positive relations with clients is the key to getting them to help with link development and word-of-mouth marketing.  |
Search Engine Watch December 15, 2009 Eric Enge |
Measuring SEO Results Non-branded search traffic, visitor engagement, and conversions are three critical metrics you should use to measure your success in search engine optimization efforts.  |